Archive of: Steps for Better Finances

• Negotiating the New Normal. Part Five - Income

  

  28 July 2020

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• Negotiating the New Normal. Part Three - Creativity

  

  10 July 2020

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• Negotiating the New Normal. Part Two - Self Care

  

  30 June 2020

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• Negotiating The New Normal. Part One - Clarity

  

  22 June 2020

  Here in New Zealand, we’ve come to the end of the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. We’re not fully free of it yet, but the initial phase is over. I hope lock down wasn’t too difficult for you. Even if it was easy, it was hard – everything changed: work; free time; exercise; childcare; socialising; shopping; personal safety – there was stress in almost every aspect of our lives.

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• Money Myth Number 8: "Spending Money Makes Me Feel Good"

  

  24 August 2018

  What if you’ve had the worst day ever, you just want to feel better, and spending does that for you? 

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• Money Myth Number 7: The only way to be good with money is to always spend as little as possible

  

  06 July 2018

  Do you feel empowered by your decision to save money, or deprived by it?

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• Money Myth Number 5: “I just need to get past this unexpectedly expensive time”

  

  25 May 2018

  It’s a myth that expensive times are an aberation. Most months are expensive.

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• Money Myth Number 4: “I’ll be perfect tomorrow”

  

  30 April 2018

  “better” is absolutely good enough.

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• Money Myth Number 2: "Budgets are so boring and restrictive"

  13 April 2018

  “Spending Plan” acknowledges that, yes, money will be spent this month.  Not only will it be spent, but some of it will be spent on (gasp!) things that make me happy

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• Money Myth Number 1: "There's no point in saving while you're paying off debt"

  06 April 2018

  I followed her “save your way out of debt” idea.  It felt weird at first.  So illogical.

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